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Gustave Doré - The Holy Bible - Plate I, The Deluge
"The Deluge", frontispiece to Gustave Doré's illustrated edition of the Bible. Based on the story of Noah's Ark, this shows humans and a tiger doomed by the flood futilely attempting to save their children and cubs.

A Deluge myth or Flood myth is a mythical story about a flood. Usually this flood is sent by a deity to destroy a civilisation as a punishment. The theme can be found in many cultures. Well-known examples that are believed to be myths include the story of Noah's Ark in the Bible, the Hindu Puranic story of Manu, Deucalion in Greek mythology or Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh.

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  • Post-Glacial Sea Level

    Earth's sea level rose dramatically in the millennia after the Last Glacial Maximum

  • Martin, John - The Deluge - 1834

    "The Deluge", by John Martin, 1834. Oil on canvas. Yale University

  • The great flood - Biblical

    18th century engraving of the great flood

  • Matsya Avatar, ca 1870

    Matsya-avatara of Lord Vishnu pulls Manu's boat after having defeated the demon

  • Francis Danby deluge

    The Deluge, by Francis Danby, 1840. Oil on canvas. Tate Gallery

  • Tablet XI or the Flood Tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, currently housed in the British Museum in London

    Flood Tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh currently housed in the British Museum in London

  • Mr. George Smith, the man who transliterated and read the so-called the Babylonian Flood Story of Tablet XI

    George Smith, who discovered and translated the Babylonian Flood Story

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